﻿^"^^^ CATALOGUE OF 



—Antennae subcrennlatgB. Abdomen sublineare, apice subfascicu- 

 latum. Foem. — Abdomen lurjgi-conicum. 

 Trigonodes, Guen, Noct. iii. 281. 

 Chalciope, p. Hiibn. Verz. Schmelt. 268. 



Body slender. Proboscis ratber short. Palpi short, nearly 

 vertical ; second joint with tbick short hairs beneath ; third lanceolate 

 about half the length of the second. Antenna? much more than half 

 the length of the body, minutely crenulate in the male. Abdomen 

 extending as far as the hind wings, almost linear, and slightly tufted 

 at the tip in the male, elongate-conical in the female. Legs 

 slender, somewhat pilose; tibiae slightly flattened ; spurs very lon^ 

 \^ings ralber broad. Fore wings triangular, and with a corres- 

 ponding triangular discal mark, slightly acute at the tips, straight 

 and moderately oblique along the exterior border. 



West Indies. 



1. Trigonodes peoblematica. 

 Pallide testacea ; caput cervinum ; thoracis tegulce cervince, alho 

 margmat(B; thorax fusco hivittatus ; alee anticcp. vitta sub- 

 costahnigricante, plaga discali longi-trigonafasciaque exteriore 

 mgro-fuscis albido marginatis, linea intermedia nigra 

 margine exteriore fusco, linea marginali nigra ; pasticci 

 margme latissimo fusco. 



Pale testaceous. Head above, and tegul^e of the thorax fawn- 

 colour, the latter bordered with white. Tborax with two divero-ino- 

 brown stripes Fore wings with a blackish subcostal stripe, "lind 

 with a blackish brown elongated triangular discal mark, which is 

 bordered with whitish, has its exterior angle much attenuated is 

 concave along Us exterior side, where it is accompanied by a black 

 line, and is almost parallel to an exterior blackish brown band 

 which IS also bordered with white, and is hardly concave along its' 

 exterior side, which adjoins the brown exterior border, the latter 

 having a black marginal line. Hind wings, with a very broad 

 brown border. Length of the body 7-8 lines; of the wings 

 18 — 20 lines. ° 



This species is distinguished from all the others of the genus by 

 the submarginal band of the fore wings. 

 Haiti. Porto Rico. 



